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You Hated Us for Our Wings, So We Never Flew
In his twelfth poetry collection, CL Bledsoe uses absurdity to explore the landscape of his own grief and to come to terms with the question of how to live in the world as a moral being. At times funny, at times tragic, Bledsoe's poems explore existential questions with the wit he's become known for.
Sunlight
"The sunflower farm was the most boring place on earth. Until weird things started happening..." What's the most boring place in the world? The farm. After his mother's death, Sol is sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle, but with no cell service and only an old dinosaur of a computer, Sol's not sure how he's going to survive. But his boredom is interrupted by strange sounds at night, the discovery of a mysterious cave, and stuff that starts to sound an awful lot like a bedtime story his mother used to tell him when he was small...that just might be true...
Trashcans In Love
The poems in CL Bledsoe's fifth collection are at turns funny and tragic, self-deprecating and deeply personal, as readers have come to expect from the author of the autobiographical collection Riceland. In Trashcans In Love, Bledsoe continues to write about the Arkansas Delta of his youth, where "we were...all looking for a place/to stick our hearts for safe-keeping" while "the boarded-over windows/of our mothers' eyes watched from graves half dug/but not full yet." Ultimately, "we aren't looking/ for tomorrow, only an eternal today."
Ray's Sea World
Your friend invites you to his new theme park he's opening in his back yard. Your wife has a plan to make scarves out of animals like that pop star she saw on TV wears and sell them at the flea market. A heartbroken dinosaur won't get off your couch since he broke up with his girlfriend. An apocalypse of ladybugs threatens all of humanity. The flash fiction stories in CL Bledsoe's second collection range from the surreal to the funny to the deeply moving.
Leap Year
ÒC.L. BledsoeÕs savage, hallucinatory, and ironic third chapbook Ñ Leap Year by Red Ceilings Press Ñ opens a window into the mind of the insane. Taken as a whole, which is clearly the intent Ð each of the 29 poems is titled with the date, as if the book is a journal written in February of a leap year ÂÐ the book reveals day-to-day life in a mental institution, blending black humor with the isolation and humiliation of an imaginative, wry speaker. Leap Year is an ambitious book, yet Bledsoe pulls it off with a masterful performance. ItÕs utterly unforgettable.: -Elizabeth Swann, Prick of the Spindle
Riceland
CL Bledsoe's collection shows us a boy's perspective on a dying farm, his dying mother, and by extraction, a dying way of life. Bledsoe paints an unsparing picture of a bleak time, but manages to leave the reader with an inexplicable hope. He tells a tale in poetry about a seismic shift in the American landscape, replete with the damage done to those on the fault lines.
Having a Baby to Save a Marriage
In this astounding collection, Bledsoe builds a new world that is at once surprising, yet familiar, in the way that dreams so often are. "If you say the moon's name/ when she's full she will expect a foot/ rub and make a lot of pointed/ comments about her needs." The world presented here has its own creation myth. Beauty and wisdom are found tucked into the most unexpected places, as in "What Poetry Is For," which moves with agility from dust to mice to memories. These poems lodge in the reader's memory; they're "what we take with us that won't fit/ in boxes." -Elizabeth MacDuffie, founding editor, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review It is difficult to write about one's children without sinking ...
The Judy Poems
In their second collaborative poetry collection, Michael Gushue and CL Bledsoe bring us suspect tales and untethered allegories from the life of Judy, a modern day demigoddess who wants to f*ck sh*t up while having a sensible yet tasty breakfast. From tragic beginnings to tragic 80s hair, she searches for love and peace of mind in a world she fears is increasingly beyond saving. But it's the one with the best snacks and--every once in a while--just desserts.
